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Remember when Ron DeSantis said his “Don’t Say Gay” bill was only intended for children younger than the third grade? Well, that was bullshit. On Wednesday, the Florida Board of Education voted to expand the provisions of HB 1223, which banned teaching on sexual orientation and gender identity in Florida’s …

Until this day, no out man has ever played on an American professional football team. That means Americans have never turned on the TV to see an honest gay man in the end zone. Las Vegas Raiders’ Carl Nassib made history on Monday by casually coming out as gay via …

This post contains spoilers for all eight episodes of the HBO series We Are Who We Are. We Are Who We Are was many things: a coming-of-age tale, a love story, and an examination of military culture in the very recent past, among others. It was also a story of …

Not far from where songwriter Emily Warren lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, there’s a dive bar with a weekly disco night. “It’s kind of a shit show,” she says. She had been attending regularly and invited collaborators Ian Kirkpatrick and Caroline Ailin to join her. It was early 2019, and …

When anti-police brutality protests erupted across the nation following the death of George Floyd, Francesca Barjon knew it was time for LGBTQ people to take to the streets. Barjon is one of the organizers of Reclaim Pride Coalition, a New York City-based organization that hosted its first “Queer Liberation March” …

Milo Yiannopolous was once on top of the world. The former editor at Breitbart News had built his brand around supporting Gamergate and trafficking in racist, misogynistic, Islamophobic, and anti-Semitic rhetoric, winning him a devoted fan base among disaffected young white men and a lucrative career as an author and …

As the U.S. women’s soccer team advances into the quarterfinals, star player Megan Rapinoe has found herself in league with Meryl Streep and Oprah Winfrey on the list of beloved celebrities Donald Trump has insulted on Twitter. The president seems to be upset about a video clip, published Tuesday, where …

James Polchin is a New York University professor who has researched hundreds of true crime stories that took place over the past century to decode those involving murders of homosexual men in the years before the gay rights movement. His new book, Indecent Advances: A Hidden History of True Crime …